Leonardo Da Vinci The Last Supper Analysis

“The Last Supper” or you can call it the spiritual painting. This painting revolves around Christ and the 12 Apostles. In this paper I will be explaining "The Last Supper," by Leonardo Da Vinci. I chose Da Vinci's The Last Supper since it's a work of art that I am familiar with. I've seen copies of it before, and it's very well known. You can ask anyone about it, and almost everyone has heard of it and is familiar with what it looks like. It's much cherished, and is an extremely well known piece of art. In fact, it is one of the most famous portrait and spiritual paintings of all time. Other than seeing the painting repeatedly and in many different ways, I still wasn't familiar with the history behind the painting. I didn't know exactly at …show more content…
In this enormous artwork, the setting is beautiful and there are tons of details. The details are so amazing that there is a distinction in the attitudes of the twelve apostles as opposed to Christ. Each and every one of the disciples do not comprehend what is about to happen, while Christ alone sits in peace. Almost everyone is familiar with the Last Supper. And many significant events occurred during the Last Supper, including a declaration by Jesus that one of his disciples would deceive him. Even though this subject matter occurs in several works of art, The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci is the most exquisite, beautiful, and has been the cause of many discussions. But how and why did Da Vinci paint …show more content…
The painting is painted on a layer of dry plaster. He chose this style due to the need for more time to paint detailed expressions, which was not possible on wet plaster as he would get a very short time to do it. Painting on dry plaster is Leonardo Da Vinci's new method of painting during that time. This technique turned out to be a failure, because of the factor of time. Before starting the painting, Leonardo covered the wall with a coating of a mixture of pitch and mastic. The wall was first coated with a strong base of some material which would not only absorb the moisture but also protect it against moisture. And he utilized chalk in the process of coating. He had to assess the painting rather quickly because the pigment had to be applied quickly before the plaster dried. He had a unique way of painting with mixing colors and didn't put eyebrows on his paintings. To separate the painting, he used tempra which allowed him to emphasize human emotion. Unfortunately, the piece began to deteriorate in 1517. By 1556, the painting was by now seen as “ruined and unrecognizable”, a painter Giovanni Batista Armenini said that the painting was so badly affected that "not anything is noticeable but a mass of blots.” In fact, it was so unrecognizable due to additional damage made by careless artists who were trying to restore the painting and by an entrance way put in the